There are many rivers in Xinyang, and there are more than 100 kilometers of flow, including the Shi River, the Guanhe River, the XunHe River, the Bailu River, the Huanghe River and the Bamboo Pole River, and there are countless tributaries of various tributaries! Therefore, under such natural conditions, every child who grows up in Xinyang will have a memory - a big river or small river flowing through his hometown, where there should be the best memories of our childhood.
Today, Xiaobian will take you to pick up a fish that has been or caught or seen, some, may occasionally be lucky to see, some, we will never see again in this life...
This fish is used to be called Xu Guangpi there. When I was a child, in the small river behind my home, the most easy to catch was this fish, and at that time I generally didn't eat it much, thinking that it had a lot of in its stomach, and now I think it should be too easy to catch.
This fish we call hemp fish, the biggest feature is that there are stripes on the body, longitudinal parallel several channels, the middle vertical one from the beginning to the end, the hometown habit is called hemp fish, growing small. They have high water quality requirements and prefer to live in rivers with sand and gravel bottoms. It is not very easy to catch, and it is now very rare, known as freshwater grouper.
Stick flower fish is very common in river ponds, and many people like to eat a small fish baby, which is used to be called Magu Shuzi. Most of the time they lie quietly under the water, looking dazed.
White mackerel is the scientific name. Hometown is used to calling dinner strips, white strips! This fish is very delicate, swimming fast, and likes to appear in groups in the rapids of the clear river! With bare hands or with a normal hand-held net, it's hard to catch them!
This fish is called the Red Sun Tube, which has not been seen for many years. Remember that adults call him a red-green pipe with green stripes on his body, which generally only appear in mountain streams or sand rivers with clear rivers.
It is found in mountain streams, especially in shoals with faster currents and sandy bottoms or tributaries of rivers. Their mouths are very long, shaped like a horse's mouth, so they are called horse-mouth fish, long and flat. They usually move in groups and like to eat small fish. It's very rare now, a rare sight to see!
This kind of fish we call ShaBanban, different places in southern Henan have different names, there are called Sha Zhan, Sabah dog and so on. The fish has a long head and a large beak, slightly flattened, a rounded belly, and a flattened posterior side. They prefer to live in small rivers and ponds near the shore of aquatic grass, sand and gravel bottom. Doesn't swim much and likes to crawl at the bottom of the river. In winter, it lurks deeper in the water layer or under the rocks, and the main food is shrimp and small fish.
Loach is also known as Chinese loach, the only species in the genus Loach in the genus Loach. It was once widely distributed and was a small fish that was very common in ditches and ponds and swamps everywhere. Loach is gluttonous and easy to hook when fishing, which always annoys anglers. The loach has a very obvious spine, almost through the entire back ridge - this must be used for self-defense, when I was a child, I was afraid of touching him, and it was still quite painful to touch him. Sand loach is very flexible, as soon as there is a noise, it will quickly burrow into the sand, and if you are not careful, you will not be able to see them.
The scientific name of the species fish is cocked, and the old family is called cocked waist. He usually lives in the middle and upper layers of flowing water, large rivers and reservoirs, swims quickly, and is good at jumping. Feeding on small fish, it is a ferocious fish. The most typical thing about the white is its mouth - the large mouth is even higher than the back of the fish. The back of the body is slightly bluish gray, the sides are silvery white, and the fins are grayish black.
Cone hubs are now sold more commonly in the market, but most of them are yellow spinach and yellow jaw fish, which are farmed. Although it belongs to the same category, it is very different from the river, and the old family custom calls it "yellow tooth cone" and "Ge Ang", and the thorns on its body are very painful.
I often heard my father tell me that there is a kind of fish in the river, called "plan fish" (sound), the scales on the body are very small, there are no thorns, the taste is delicious, but the fins are easy to stab people, and even there is a horror that it will be stabbed at noon and will kill people. Later, after searching and checking, I learned that it was called mandarin fish, and Zhang Zhihe's famous "Fishing Song" "Egret Flying in Front of Xisai Mountain, Peach Blossom Flowing Water Mandarin Fish Fat" is about him.
Mandarin fish is also known as mandarin fish, osmanthus fish, flower crucian carp and so on. Mandarin fish are diurnal and ferocious, juveniles like to eat fish and shrimp, and adults mainly eat other fish. Mandarin fish used to be widely distributed in southern Henan, but I have not seen it before, and now I have not seen it, but I have traveled to anhui and southern Anhui, and I have eaten a famous dish - stinky mandarin fish, which is now farmed, and I do not feel how delicious it is.
The scientific name is eel, the long shape resembles a yellow eel, but the abdomen is white, the body is thin and flattened, the skin is buried under the fine scales, the epidermis is smooth, and the back is dark green. White eel is known as "ginseng in the water" because of its high edible value, and now the price of white eels can be eaten is dead expensive!
My impression of this fish comes from the comments of the villagers when I was a child: if there are a few eels in the fish pond, the other fish will be extinct! This is a ferocious carnivorous fish, regardless of meat, vegetarian food, eat when seen, grab food, sometimes can swallow fish larger than its mouth, specializing in a variety of fish, including the famous carnivorous fish - mullet (blackfish). But now don't worry - because in Henan, I haven't seen it for many years!
Mud ditch drilling, before the small river a lot, the body is particularly slippery, it is not easy to grasp with the hand, all with the net to grasp. We rarely eat in the countryside, and we throw it to the ducks to eat.
Sand bone Lu lie down, lying in the water all the time, so there is such a name. There are many small ones in the river, and very few large ones. Caught directly in the glass bottle to raise, good to raise.
Forgot what the name was, it was very beautiful, and I kept it when I caught it. In fact, when I was a child, I didn't catch fish to eat it. At that time, there was no entertainment in the countryside, there were few TV programs, and catching fish was a particularly good pleasure. A lot of fish are called our local name, I don't know what you call it there?
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The above are some of the wild fish that were once common in the land of southern Henan. There is a lot of water in Xinyang, there are fish when there is water, from the XunHe River in the west to the quanhe river in the east, as long as there are fish in the slightly larger natural water body.
We call these naturally growing fish "wild fish" or miscellaneous fish to distinguish between "domestic fish". People who grew up in the countryside of Xinyang, especially boys, will have incomparably deep memories and deep feelings for all kinds of wild fish in the rivers, lakes and ponds of their hometowns.
In the Erti era, for wild fish: catfish mullet yellow tooth fish mandarin fish crucian carp cocked mouth white meal, as well as yellow eel loach knife loach and so on can be counted.
Catching these wild fish was one of the happiest activities in childhood life, when I grabbed them with my hands, with nets, with rods, I thought they were really inexhaustible, and then people began to use cannons, electricity, and even poison in the upper reaches of a river. People's madness has arrived, and they have killed the Jedi! Later, the emergence of pig farms and domestic garbage along the river gave their homes a final blow. These cute fish, from the once large number to the sharp decline, many directly extinct!
In the 1980s, the fisheries research department conducted a census of fish in Xinxian, Huangchuan and other places, there were 75 species of fish, and in 2015, the fish census of Luoshan, Xinxian and other places, the highest Luoshan was only 49 species, in 30 years, nearly 30 species were extinct, and many of the remaining were also rare.
Here I just picked a dozen kinds of wild fish that were once particularly common, called it "hometown cute fish", and relived it, after all, this is our unforgettable memory, perhaps, in the future, we can only go to the aquarium to see their appearance!